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  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    What is an s-type cooling fan?
  • eastcoast_pete - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    I had the same question. @Anton: I know you're basically stuck reproducing the press release from Dynabook, but that would be a good question to ask their marketing geniuses. Also, whoever wrote their press release didn't do Dynabook any favors; anybody with even a little tech background smells the marketing BS emanating from such terms as "s-type cooling fan", and that's not what one wants when trying to get potential customers interested.
  • thomasg - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    S-type fans are fans with strongly curved blades, so the fan blades opposite each other form a "S" shape.
    The term appears to be used pretty much exclusively in china (as well as the fan design which has become increasingly less common).

    This likely doesn't come from the marketing department, but straight out of a translation of the Chinese spec sheets, since this has clearly been developed in China (or Taiwan), not in Japan (as Toshiba stuff used to be).
  • Samus - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    It's worth pointing out the reason S blades are uncommon, ESPECIALLY in laptops, is because their performance deteriorates incredibly fast as they build up with dust, which they are naturally more prone to collecting because of the variable angled surface area.

    Most fans collect dust on the edge. Well, S blades have a 'longer' edge.
  • johnnypoulet - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    I wonder if Toshiba knows that the word in French is Protégé, Portégé is simply not a word. Haha!
  • goatfajitas - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    It was named back when they had the Libretto (super small) Portege (medium) and Tecra (large) laptop lines so yeah, I am guessing they know ;)
  • MamiyaOtaru - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    Protege is a word in English too, thanks to our predilection for borrowing anything and everything from any language we please :)
  • ZPrime - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    I'm pretty sure "Portégé " is a purposefully made-up marketing word. They wanted to evoke Protégé, but they wanted to stress how portable it is... hence Portégé.
  • eastcoast_pete - Friday, July 12, 2019 - link

    I believe it was named (made up) after portage, which means carrying, to carry. Porteges were, from the get-go, positioned as easy-to-carry laptops. I had one of the really early ones, chunky by today's standard, but much lighter than it's competition.
  • Guspaz - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    I owned a Portégé. Super light because of the magnesium alloy chassis. Also super fragile because of the magnesium alloy chassis. It was put down a bit roughly on a tile floor, while inside of a neoprene padded case, while inside of a laptop backpack. The whole corner of the thing shattered as if it were made of glass, like, into little pieces, because apparently magnesium alloy is super brittle. Toshiba refused to repair it even *out* of warranty ("we don't have the parts") and forced me to use a third-party repair shop in another country (because the Toshiba salesperson lied to me about support for US products in Canada) that charged me half the price of the laptop just to replace the broken chassis (no damage to ANY electronics, it was just the metal shell) and they failed to correctly re-assembly the keyboard (which was glued on) so every time I typed on the keyboard it made the sound of, like, crackling cellophane.

    So, even if this isn't Toshiba anymore, it's the same business unit, and they're using at least some of the same design cues, so buyer beware.
  • Samus - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    I remember replacing a hard drive in one years ago (with an SSD) and I couldn't believe the amount of shit you had to remove to get to the hard drive. It was literally like taking an engine out of a car. Everything had to be disconnected just to get to it, including splitting the chassis, removing the bottom panel and keyboard, the heatpipe\fan, etc. Dozens of screws. It was really amazing. Took over an hour. To physically swap a drive.
  • jabber - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    Tell me about it! Apple has a lot to answer for with its thinner and thinner approach. What used to be a 5 minute job is now an hour or more and risks breaking the machine as you pry apart cheap brittle plastic clips.
  • PasswordIsTaco - Monday, September 7, 2020 - link

    Ok in that case lets have them stop making these thinner and lighter so u can get to the screws easier. Takes a min or 2 more than it did on my circa 2000AD 2” thick fujitsu lifebook. Otherwise ud prob prefer an acer aspire 5 that will upgrade more easily. Just ignore the creaky plastic and more rattling than a 1993 mustang gt
  • jabber - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    Yay I look forward to trying to pry these open to repair them in 2-3 years time.
  • cfenton - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    I hope it's really cheap because Dynabook has no name recognition and sounds a lot like a product from a no-name Chinese OEM. I also think it looks terrible, especially the hinge, but I know that's a matter of personal preference.
  • timecop1818 - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link

    Looks terrible and ugly.. Huge bezels. 13" 1080p in 2019. The bezels make this thing look closer to 14". The only positive here is a keyboard with separate pgup/down keys. No specifications on the panel, could be some disgusting TN with 300nits brightness. No thanks!
  • damianrobertjones - Thursday, July 18, 2019 - link

    Good lord! I've just glad that 1366x768 is a thing of the past!
  • PasswordIsTaco - Monday, September 7, 2020 - link

    Its a biz machine, one of few available period with (2) 40gb TB3 ports, let alone this footprint, hi nit / anti glare display (so u can use it in the sun, good luck macbook and glossy 4k users) 3 usb-c total, usb-c chargung, AND upgradesble ram and ssd, snd kf course, u get screw locations and aesthetics complaints lol - proof u cant pls everyone, so just pls the ones that matter, in this case, those that appreciate performance and options..and usesbility lol
  • nikon133 - Monday, July 15, 2019 - link

    These "metal" hinges on older Portege machines were, in real, cheap looking plastic molds with "chrome" finish. It would be nice if they have replaced them with actual metal parts. Maybe it was just in my eyes, but those plastics, looking equally bling-y and cheap, undermined impression of otherwise fine looking early ultraportable.
  • Daeros - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link

    Give me a Ryzen chip instead of a security hole ridden Intel and we're talking. Replace that display with a 1920x1200 IPS and I'm chasing you down to give you my money.

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